A fund connected to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters made a rare donation to a Republican Party cause in January, according to federal filings. On Feb. 20, the labor organization political action committee Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (The PAC of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters), or DRIVE, reported it sent a $45,000 donation to […]
The University of Pennsylvania has lost a $100 million dollar donation. That’s after the donor responded to statements made by U-Penn president Liz Magill at Tuesday’s House committee anti-Semitism hearing. Lawyers for the donor said the school had violated the terms of their agreement, including policies dealing with anti-discrimination and anti-harassment. Other Ivy League universities, […]
The campaign of former President Donald Trump announced on July 5 that he raised more than $35 million for his White House bid in the second fundraising quarter, nearly double what he raised in the first quarter of the year. The amount is the most recent indication that Mr. Trump is the dominant frontrunner in […]
A farmer in Alabama helped pay strangers’ pharmacy bills for ten years. Every month he would go to the local pharmacy and donate a hundred dollars, so people could access their medication even if they couldn’t afford it. But it wasn’t until he was on his deathbed that his family found out: Hody Childress kept […]
The CEO of Tesla and Twitter, Elon Musk, donated nearly $2 billion in Tesla shares to charity last year. Currently the world’s second-richest person, the Tesla CEO owns around 13 percent of the company’s stock, Reuters reported. Around a total of 11.6 million shares from the electric car company, worth $1.95 billion, were given away by Musk as […]
Some conservatives have raised questions about the impartiality of the newly-appointed special counsel on former President Donald Trump’s case, Jack Smith, after it emerged that his wife donated to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and produced a film for former First Lady Michelle Obama. On Nov. 18 Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith to be […]
Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk said that SpaceX would be rolling out a feature letting people donate Starlink satellite internet units to places in need, after Musk said that the rocket company couldn’t continue to fund Starlink in Ukraine “indefinitely.” Musk said in an Oct. 17 post on Twitter that SpaceX would add a donate […]
Chip Wilson, the billionaire founder of multinational athletic apparel retailer Lululemon Inc., is gifting more than $75 million—the biggest private donation in Canadian conservation history—to help protect, enhance, and sustain British Columbia’s natural spaces. Wilson and his wife, Summer, announced the donation at an event held in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on Sept. 15, noting that […]
Ohio’s Columbus Division of Fire confirmed another young girl has died after the Hilltop house fire on June 23. Fire officials said 7-year-old Heaven Roebus passed away on Tuesday morning. Heaven’s death follows the tragic deaths of her two sisters, 10-year-old Diamond Roebuck and 8-year-old Lariyiah Roebuck. The sisters succumbed to their injuries sustained from […]
An assistant district attorney won a landslide victory in a primary race for top prosecutor in Cumberland County, Maine. But she said she didn’t know a progressive political action committee would donate to her campaign.
An online fundraiser for the children of Irma Garcia, a beloved schoolteacher killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, and Joe Garcia, her husband, who died of a heart attack days later, has raised more than $2.6 million. “Irma was a wife, a mother of 4, a cousin, a sister a daughter, an aunt and […]
The United States is donating approximately $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and will also contribute additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, a White House spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. National Security Council (NSC) spokeswoman Emily Horne said in a government statement that the United States remains “the single largest donor of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan” and […]
The voting rights bill H.R. 1, or “For the People Act” is still sparking controversy. We look into what major election reforms it seeks to make. One section of the bill states the government would match donations to fund political candidates’ campaigns by 600%. President Biden says he wants to make it easier for people […]
